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Publishers Weekly: Survival is the measure of success for people overwhelmed by alien forces in this adroit alternate history of first contact from fantasist Dickinson (the Baru Cormorant trilogy). Anna Sinjari, a Kurd living in 2013 New York City, finds an eight-headed extraterrestrial casually snacking on turtles in Central Park. Bound soul to soul by a mysterious alien force, Anna and Ssrin, who turns out to be a rebel from the Exordia galactic empire, attempt to recover a crashed spaceship […]

Congratulations to DMLA author, Martha Wells, for her book WITCH KING which was named as one of Amazon’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2023!

SYSTEM COLLAPSE by Martha Wells is a USA TODAY Bestseller debuting at #20!

Huge shout out to DMLA author, Suzan Palumbo, for The Skin Thief making the list of Book Riot’s Best Books of 2023!

After an auction, L.J. Andrews has sold world rights to the first two books in her new Stonegate romantasy series to Kristine Swartz at Ace. The deal was negotiated by Katie Shea Boutillier at the Donald Maass Literary Agency. Broken Souls and Bones is set for summer 2025. (Details about the second book are not yet available.) Boutillier said Broken Souls follows a young woman “with a unique form of bone melder magic” who is “forced into the service of a power-hungry king and is determined to escape—until she falls […]

Orbit UK will publish a stunning epic fantasy trilogy from debut author M. H. Ayinde. The first book in the series, A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST, will be published in spring 2025 and launches a gripping tale of revenge and rebellion in a vividly drawn world inspired by multiple pre-colonial cultures. Editor Emily Byron acquired rights from Jennie Goloboy. M. H. Ayinde was born in London’s East End. She was the 2021 winner of the Future Worlds Prize, which was […]

The New York Times has released it’s 100 Notable Books of 2023 list, and it includes two DMLA titles!!! The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera The Reformatory by Tananarive Due Congrats to Vajra Chandrasekera and Tananarive Due!

The latest Murderbot Diaries, SYSTEM COLLAPSE by Martha Wells, is a New York Times best seller, debuting at #12 (hardcover) and #4 (combined hardcover and ebook)! Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells’s bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I’m making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But […]

Jess K Hardy’s COME AS YOU ARE and LIPS LIKE SUGAR, to Kerri Buckley at Dreamscape Media, in a two-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier.

Annika Martin’s THE GRUMPY BILLIONAIRE, Book 8 of Billionaires of Manhattan series,  to Petra Kruijt at April (The Netherlands), by Vere Bank at Sebes & Bisseling, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. Spanish rights to Jo Walton’s NECESSITY, to Duermevela, by Amaiur Fernandez at International Editors’, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. Ukrainian rights to New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher’s STORM FRONT, FOOL MOON and GRAVE PERIL, the first three novels in […]